Would You Use Your Mobile Phone to Pay for Groceries? [Podcast]

Smartphones are going to change the way we buy things in the real world. Instead of swiping our credit cards, soon we’ll be able to pay by tapping our phones at the check-out stand. Boog and I debated whether virtual payment systems like Google Wallet would make the process less safe.

What we agreed is definitely not safe is novelist R. L. Stine’s new Twitter horror story, which Boog has thoughtfully compiled into one post with Storify.

Follow this MP3 link to listen. The show was hosted by GalleyCat editor Jason Boog. Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Image by Nils Z via Shutterstock.